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What's in my handbag

14 Jun 2013

And now to see what I've been carting about in the huge slouchy handbag I made. The people at Money Supermarket are running a 'What's in your bag' survey to find out the sorts of things women carry about in their bags and to be in with the chance of winning a Mulberry, all you need to do is post what's in your bag and tot up the value of what they all cost, so I thought I'd take part because who doesn't love seeing all the crap people carry round with them on a daily basis {and I'd love a Mulberry too!}

Welcome to today’s
contents of my bag*;

Cath Kidston Purse (which today contains £12.58, a plethora of loyalty cards and a lot of receipts. The purse was about £15 too)

Mobile phone - Galaxy S2 (about £250)

My Personal Planner (£15 to buy but full of irreplaceable notes)

Some of my favourite pens (£6)

My iPod, but strangely no headphones at the moment (it's so old that it's not worth anything right now, but I guess would be about £100 to replace)

Car keys, which given the bag is so huge are lost 80% of the time they are in it.

Stila convertible colour in peony. I love this stuff but can't find the same colour any more (about £20 I think)

The boyf's kindle for my GOT's reading - finding out what has happened to Arya and Jon now season 3 has finished is a must right now (£70)

Lip balms - Vaseline, and some colours left over from our night out at Bon Jovi - I couldn't decide a colour and ended up just wearing the vaseline! (about £15)

My glasses (£160)

And some sunnies (£90)

Moo mini cards, which reminds me I need some new ones printing up (£10)

Beeswax handcream, my mum bought me this from a local bee keeper and it's amazing (£4)

there are also a few dog poo bags, some dog treats, a baggy with 5 nose studs in them for when I misplace one, about 16 hairbands, and a collection of hair grips, but they don't photograph so well.

£767.58 {+£45 for the bag I made}

It's been really interesting totting up everything that's in my bag and realising just how much stuff I cart around with me (and how much all that stuff costs). On a good (or bad, depending how you look at it) day there might also be my DSLR and lenses, some more make-up, the boyf's mini laptop, a couple of notebooks and if I'm lucky some food! Maybe it's a good job I made a cavernous bag after all!

I showed this post to Steph, who I share a bank of desks with at
work, and she insisted on dumping the rubbish from her handbag into my desk. It
genuinely was so laughable I had to take a photo. What you might not be able to
see is that along side the usual purse and sunnies, car keys and phone, her bag
contains her daughters school tie, about 46 crayons and pencils, a candle and
candle holder, a plethora of hair bands and clips, ‘paper work’ (otherwise
known as a bundle of receipts), a battery for a phone she doesn’t have any
more, Next gift cards, ½ a pharmacy and
2 sachets of mustard! You know, just in case!

I always wonder how so many things can be stuffed on a single handbag! =) You should not lose those sachets of mustard, make sure you have the right handbag insurance to have those covered. LOL! Thanks for sharing this post.

About me

Hi, I'm Emma. A Sheffield based blogger with a penchant for gin and craft beer, travelling, snowboarding, sailing and slowing doing up my house. I'm aggressively dog friendly I'm also living with stage IV breast cancer , stage iv means it's incurable, and I'm most likey going to die at the hands of this disease. But im going to have a heck of a time living before that happens.

Basically I blog about what I've been up to, where we've been on holiday, a bit about the house, my dogs and anything else that takes my fancy!

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